Posted on 06/04/2012 10:10:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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No, this isn’t a joke, it isn’t a fake document, and it isn’t a misinterpretation. It is a paper published by Dr. James Hansen (and the GISS team) in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). In the paper (published in 2000, but long since buried) they make these two bold statements (emphasis mine):
..we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as chlorofluorocarbons, CH4, and N2O, not by the products of fossil fuel burning, CO2 and aerosols..
If sources of CH4 and O3 precursors were reduced in the future, the change in climate forcing by non-CO2 GHGs in the next 50 years could be near zero. Combined with a reduction of black carbon emissions and plausible success in slowing CO2 emissions, this reduction of non-CO2 GHGs could lead to a decline in the rate of global warming, reducing the danger of dramatic climate change.
Basically what Hansen is saying is that we should focus on air pollution, and some CO2 reduction, but not exclusively on CO2 alone. This is of course at odds with his famous 350ppm CO2 “safe level” upon which the activist organization 350.org is formed, along with many other pronouncements made by Hansen. I post the abstract and excerpts from the PNAS paper below. Be sure to note the item in red. – Anthony
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
Taco Bell, bean burritos, methane, OH NOES. And conversion of cattle to double cheeseburgers.
The paper was from 2000.
Weren't those the decades that Hanson played hide and seek with the numbers?
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No surprise that there is no link to the paper from Hansen’s own site, but I got to wondering, what about the co-authors? I followed up on a single one, Makiko Sato. Sure enough, in her list of publications, that paper is listed. So, I skimmed the abstracts from the other papers she has listed (as co-author with Hansen) and came up with this gem of a quote from another paper in 1998:
“the index indicates that climate change should be apparent already, but in most places climate trends are too small too stand out above year-to-year variability. The climate index is strongly correlated with global surface temperature, which has increased as rapidly as projected by climate modelers in the 1980s. We argue that the global area with obvious global change will increase notably in the next few years.”
Wow. So, in 1998 they could NOT detect climate change over most of the earth, but predicted that this would change “notably in the next few years”. Except it hasn’t. The temperature trend over the glove since 1998 has been about zero.
The number of predictions made by the alarmists, in writing, that the march of time has falsified, is staggering.
Double post from system troubles,.....time outs and proxy errors.
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coldlynx says:
The article may be the scientific foundation for “Climate and Clean Air Coalition” CCAC
This may be the long needed escape way for governments to get away from CO2 focus.
They may then focus on something more agreeable than CO2
http://www.unep.org/
and
http://www.unep.org/ccac/Portals/24183/docs/Press_release_Sec_Clinton_Announces_the_CCAC.pdf
and
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2012/05/30/g8-takes-on-short-lived-climate-pollutants/
shortname: SLCP
Just wait until it gets really hot along about the middle of August.
They’re just not going to give up are they? If CO2 is roundly debunked (and it has been) then on to something else. The good news is that’s a desperation game and it will be very hard to keep anyone but the diehard eco-nut on board.
Eat less beans.
Their problem is that they don't have any climate change with which to correlate.
Their problem is that they don't have any climate change with which to correlate.
Hanson is a circus clown. How much tax payer money have governments dumped as a result of this chicken little watermelon game?
Someone tell Mittens. He’s a dippy warmist.
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No surprise that there is no link to the paper from Hansen’s own site, but I got to wondering, what about the co-authors? I followed up on a single one, Makiko Sato. Sure enough, in her list of publications, that paper is listed. So, I skimmed the abstracts from the other papers she has listed (as co-author with Hansen) and came up with this gem of a quote from another paper in 1998:
“the index indicates that climate change should be apparent already, but in most places climate trends are too small too stand out above year-to-year variability. The climate index is strongly correlated with global surface temperature, which has increased as rapidly as projected by climate modelers in the 1980s. We argue that the global area with obvious global change will increase notably in the next few years.”
Wow. So, in 1998 they could NOT detect climate change over most of the earth, but predicted that this would change “notably in the next few years”. Except it hasn’t. The temperature trend over the glove since 1998 has been about zero.
The number of predictions made by the alarmists, in writing, that the march of time has falsified, is staggering.